Police: SUV in Sluice Pond was stolen

LYNN – Authorities said nobody was in a stolen SUV that was dumped in Sluice Pond Monday night and prompted two dive teams, fire, police and emergency personnel to respond to the scene.
“It turned out it was a positive outcome in that no one was hurt or died,” Lynn Police Lt. Dave Brown said Monday night. “It was a great cooperative effort.”
Police and fire officials received multiple calls Monday night at 9 p.m. reporting a car breaking through the ice and sinking into Sluice Pond at the Briarcliff Lodge boat ramp, on Kernwood Drive.
Neighbors reported hearing the ice crack and seeing an SUV sinking beneath the surface, according to Lynn District Fire Chief Michael Barry. Brown said police arrived to find the vehicle, a Nissan Pathfinder, completely submerged and drifting under the ice toward the center of the pond. Firefighters on scene launched a boat to try and break the ice, and dive teams from Beverly and Cambridge arrived on scene as well as Atlantic Ambulance, Brown reported.
Divers entered the water and determined nobody was inside the vehicle or in the area of the vehicle underneath the ice, both officials reported. Police tracked down the owner of the vehicle, a Wrentham man, who was in the process of reporting the vehicle stolen out of Burlington, both officials said.
G&J Towing hauled the vehicle out of the pond at approximately 10:45 p.m. Monday, Barry reported.
Brown said the owner reported he had left the keys in the ignition.